Families of Kenya university victims await arrival of bodies

Islamic Extremism

Members of the Red Cross help a relative of one of the students massacred by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists at a Kenyan university at the Chiromo funeral parlour in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on April 3, 2015. The bodies of dozens of students massacred by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists at a Kenyan university in Garissa arrived in the capital today, as grieving relatives faced a desperate wait to receive the remains of their loved ones. AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA

Published April 3, 2015 at 11:44 AM Updated April 22, 2015 at 10:05 AM

In the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the U.S. embassy was bombed in 1998, gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people on Thursday.

On Friday (April 3), grieving relatives of the students jammed a local mortuary in the hope there loved ones were not there but in the hospital.

Most of them were heartbroken after seeing their kin’s bodies being taken to the mortuary’s cold room.

Strapped with explosives, masked al Shabaab gunmen stormed the Garissa University College campus, some 200 km (120 miles) from the Somali border, in a pre-dawn rampage.

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